Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in AmericaListen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane |
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The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. Acknowledgments. n. Readers remake texts, but readers who share the ... reader; and Scott Casper, who wrote an insightful anonymous reader's report and subsequently identified himself to me ...
... Readers,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 160, part 2 (1997), 273–300, reprinted in Barbara Ryan and Amy M. Thomas, eds., Reading Acts: U.S. Readers' Interactions with Literature, 1800– 1950 (Knoxville: University ...
... reading verse: namely, that the meanings of texts were inseparable from the associations, longings, and purposes they acquired in the hands of readers. That dawning realization coincided with my attraction, as a scholar, to the ...
... readers no longer confronted words on the page. Thus it offered the chance to see at close range the interplay between values, ideologies, and practices such as reading aloud, rereading, and reciting to oneself. In addition, an ...
... readers I discuss did not confront an expanded canon so much as multiple canons; these included religious verse, poetry for the home, and other groupings organized by thematic rather than aesthetic qualities. Often their reading was ...
Contents
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Celebrity and Cipher | 75 |
Alien and Intimate | 92 |
Listen My Children Modes of Poetry Reading in American Schools | 107 |
I Am an American Poetry and Civic Ideals | 165 |
Grow Old Along with Me Poetry and Emotions among Family and Friends | 242 |
Gods in His Heaven Religious Uses of Verse | 287 |
Lovely as a Tree Reading and Seeing OutofDoors | 336 |
Favorite Poems and Contemporary Readers | 381 |
Notes | 407 |
Index | 451 |